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By Esther Walker After nine years on Channel 4's teen magazine show, June Sarpong is moving on - and using the power of showbiz to get to get young women interested in politics. Esther Walker hears why June Sarpong has always been a bit political.

The British government proposed bold new environmental legislation Tuesday that would set legally binding, long-term limits on carbon emissions - a move it hopes will prompt the United States, China and India to follow suit.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the moment was right to come up with new measures to combat global warming and vowed that the world's industrialized countries would push strongly this year for new emissions goals.

Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a British government report said Monday, as the country launched a bid to convince doubters that environmentalism and economic growth can coincide.

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair will be replaced as British
Prime Minister by the end of July 2007, newspapers reported on
Wednesday, signaling the start of a leadership battle which
some fear may paralyze government for months.

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair will be replaced as British
Prime Minister by the end of July 2007, newspapers reported on
Wednesday, signaling the start of a leadership battle which
some fear may paralyze government for months.

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair will end his premiership on
July 26 next year, British newspapers reported on Wednesday,
but must confirm this date publicly if he is to stem a revolt
by frustrated members of his ruling Labour party.

By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair will leave office on July 26,
the Sun newspaper reported in its Wednesday edition, as the
increasingly unpopular prime minister faced growing pressure to
quit from within his own Labour Party.

By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair will leave office on July 26,
the Sun reported in its Wednesday edition, as the increasingly
unpopular prime minister faced growing pressure to quit from
within his own Labour Party.